Showered with lots of PINK!

Baby girl,

My work threw a sweet lovely shower for you today! daddy came also and it was so nice to celebrate YOU! I opened a lot of gifts with the color pink :) so I really am counting on you being a girly girl. Every day is going to be a fashion show - you have so many lovely clothes. I just can't wait!

So with my elevated blood pressure and very swollen feet I am pushing going on full time bed rest and I am doing my best without jeopardizing you or my health to avoid that. One thing I'm doing is keeping my feet elevated at work with my shoes off LOL...it's quite funny to see me with my big giant belly, propping my bare feet up high as can be while at work. But totally sweet that my work is accommodating me so much.

Another funny, I can not take my wedding rings off at all! I've waited too long to take them off and now they just won't budge over my swollen knuckle. Hopefully, they will not have to be cut off! daddy had asked me to take them off 2 months ago but of course he knows he married a stubborn woman...I do wonder if that is something you will inherit from me. :)

Oh the joys of pregnancy! I know it's all going to be worth it.

xo mommy

Just You & I

Sweet Baby,

We had another scare this weekend with my elevated blood pressure. This time I spent overnight in the hospital so that they could monitor us and make sure you and I were ok. Unfortunately, I had just dropped daddy off at the airport that morning as he had a business trip scheduled. After dropping him off I went directly to my dr appt on my own, I was nervous as this was my first appt I've had without your daddy accompanying me.

I won't lie, I was quite upset about admitting myself in the hospital on my own. I knew I would be in good hands though and the most important thing to me was to make sure you were fine and stayed safe. The nurses at CMC were awesome and took really great care of us. We of course checked your heart beats and movements and you were totally showing off and looked fabulous the entire time. I had to have more blood work done and thankfully my blood pressure stayed down to a safe range during the entire 24 hours we were there.

I spent a lot of time praying and feeling grateful for every little kick and jab from you. We are so close to you coming and I am so ready! I just want you to be ready and come when you are perfectly healthy and developed. If we make it to your due date I will be very surprised - you are still measuring fairly big :).

Soon I will get to hold you in my arms, little one, I'm soooooo excited! You are and will always be so loved.

Until then...mommy loves you so.

A little scare...but no worries!

Hi Livie,

We were sent to Labor & Delivery today as my blood pressure was high and I had some increased swelling. The dr wanted to be sure that you and I were doing ok. So I had to do some blood work and they did a non-stress test on you.

Everything came back fine! You were your usual active self, moving all around on there, but you were showing us just how fantastic you are. Your heart rate and neurological movements are perfect. My blood work showed that I am not in any danger right now either, but they are keeping a watch on me, and I have a couple of days of bed rest. Hopefully, that will do the trick to get my blood pressure down a little bit and decrease my swollen feet.

You're going to be a big size baby apparently. Which my body is trying to cope w/ all the extra weight. If you come early it will be a good thing that you are measuring a few weeks ahead so I am not worried. We are almost considered full term so if you do come early you should be just fine!

I'm going to take it easy the next few weeks, we can hardly believe you are almost here! We can not wait to meet our sweet baby girl!

xo mommy